It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.

A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

The Door Without a Key is the Door of Dreams; it is the door by which the sensitive escape into insanity when life is too hard for them, and artists use it as a window in a watch-tower. Psychologists call it a psychological mechanism; magicians call it magic, and the man in the street calls it illusion or charlatanry according to taste. It does not matter to me what it is called, for it is effectual.

The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence.

We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.

There is no essential difference between sticking pins into a wax image of an enemy and burning candles in front of a wax image of the Virgin. You may think that both these practices are gross superstition, but you can hardly think that one is real and potent and deny reality and potency to the other.

What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.